Legal Principles of ensuring humanitarian activities of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society and the place among them of administrative and legal regulation
Abstract
The article emphasises that legal principles ensure the sustainability, comprehensiveness and orientation of humanitarian activity towards compliance with internationally proclaimed principles and values, taking into account the problems and challenges facing all humanity during its implementation.
It has been noted that legal principles are closely related to historical principles. Based on an understanding of the historical origins of humanitarian activity, a comprehensive understanding of the legal principles for ensuring the humanitarian activity of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society is formed, the formation of which took place over the centuries, embodying individual cultural, worldview and other attitudes that go back to the most ancient human civilisations.
It has been determined that in the activities of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, administrative and legal norms determine the features of its interaction and coordination with other public authorities and civil society institutions and regulate a number of organisational and managerial processes related to information, personnel, material and technical and other support of various regional and district organisations of the Ukrainian Red Cross.
Attention is focused on the fact that at the international level, the system of legal principles for ensuring the humanitarian activities of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society considers the provisions of such fundamental international documents as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field. It has been argued that at the international level, the fundamental principles of humanitarian activities, their key goals, and global problems that can lead to humanitarian crises are determined. It is precisely such provisions of international documents that form the basis of domestic regulatory legal acts.
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